Game apparatus.



No. 789,006. PATENTE) MAY 2, 1905.'

P. P. 00X.

GAME APPARATUS.

APPLIGATION FILED JUNE z2, 1904.

[NVE/WOR IINTTnn STATES Patented. May 2, 1905i.v

PATENT Orrrcn.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 789,006, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed .Tune 22, 1904. Serial No. 213,658.

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Be it known that I, PAUL FLEMMING Cox, of Battlecreek, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

This invention is a novel game apparatus, toy, or puzzle; and it consists in a holder or box having a plurality of suspending devices, such as hooks or eyes, attached to its' side wall above its bottom and below its top and a plurality of loose objects in the box adapted to be suspended from said devices, said objects preferably containing eyes or hooks adapted to engage the hooks or eyes on the box. Only one object can be suspended from one device, and considerable patience or skill is required to suspend the plurality of objects on the hooks, as the objects cannot be handled directly and must be positioned by manipulating the box in which they are contained.

The invention is concisely stated in the claims, and will be clearly understood from the following description, in connection with the drawings, in which-A Figure I is a front view of the preferred form of game apparatus embodying my invention with the objects detached from the hooks. Fig. 2 is a perspective view thereof,

showing the objects suspended. Fig. 3 is a' section on line 3 3, Fig. l. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are details showing the hooks.

The box A isadapted to be held in the hand and is preferably provided with a glass or mica front B. It may be of any desired form. Attached to and projecting inwardly from the side walls of the box are a series of suspending devices C, preferably hooks or eyes, set at diferent angles, which are arranged intermediate the glass B and bottom a of the box, so that objects cannot be directly engaged therewith while lying iiat on the bottom or top of box. Within the box are a number of separate movable objects I), (two being shown,) corresponding in num ber to the devices C. As shown in Fig. 1, theseobjects are dummy figures of men, and said figures have eyes or hooks ci on their heads bent or projecting at different angles thereto by which they can be suspended from the hooks or eyes in the box when properly engaged therewith.

The game may be called Hang the Bandits, and the player must so manipulate the box in the hand as to engage the dummy iigures with the suspending devices, the object being to hang the bandits all together, which, owing to the location of the suspending devices on the sides of the box and the gravity of the objects, is difficult, and this difliculty is enhanced by the number of the objects in the box.

Preferably the hooks C are stamped out of sheet metal with head portions c, which are bent over at right angles to the shanks. Then the ends c of this part c are bent upward, formingstaples, which may be forced through the wall of the box A and clenched, as indicated in Figs. 4 and 5, thus securing the hooks in place.

The whole box may be covered with a linishing-paper E, as indicated in the drawings. Preferably the hooks are set at different angles, and the eyes CZ of the dummies are bent at dierent angles, so as to increase the difliculty of playing the game. In practice the dummy with straight eye should be engaged with the straight right-handed hook. Then the other dummy can be caught on the other hook by properly manipulating the box.

I prefer to use a plurality of the suspending devices and plurality of loose disconnected objects, as it increases the difficulty of executing the trick. Further, it will be noted the suspending devices are attached to the sides of the box, so that practically the objects can pass all around the suspending devices Without at any time, when in any normal position of rest, being in position to engage therewith.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The herein-described toy, comprising a box or casing, a plurality of suspending-hooks attached to one side thereof and projecting inwardly therefrom between the top and bottom of the box and set at diiferent angles;

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With a plurality of loose objects loosely conl on one end and adapted to be thereby hung fined in the box and provided With eyes by l upon the respective hooks by manipulation I5 which they can be respectively suspended on of the box in the hand, the eyes being also the respective hooks by skilful manipulation l arranged at different angles relative to their 5 of the box, substantially as described. connected objects, substantially as described.

2. The herein-described game apparatus, In testimony that I claim the foregoing as comprising a box With a transparent top, a my own 1 aiix my signature in presence of tWo 2O plurality of hooks attached to one side of the Witnesses.

box and projecting inwardly therefrom intera yIO mediate the top and bottom of the box, said PAUL FLEMMING 00X hooks being turned to face at different angles, In presence ofand a like number of movable objects loosely FRANCIS A. KULP,

confined in the box each provided with an eye l FRANK H. Mo'r'r. 

